Quotes About Oneness

O How may I ever express that secret word? O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that? If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed: If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood. He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one; The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools. He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: There are no words to tell that which He is.

Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.

The original meaning of healing was "to make whole". We can be healed of our separateness through our contact with something whole. We can know we are not separate from the whole, and we can know the universe through knowing ourselves.

A drop that knows itself, knows the Ocean. (p. 80)

All life is one and everything that lives is holy. Holiness is Reality. (p. 80)

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

three torches burning with a single flame.

Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

And when a man becomes nothing, he instantly becomes Everything!

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Los seres humanos, tal como los conocemos, no son sino partes infinitesimales de un todo inmenso.

One love One heart Let's get together And feel all right. —Bob Marley

Even though Silicon Valley's monopolies exist for the sake of profit, they view themselves as revolutionary agents, elevating the world to the state of oneness that Brand spent his life chasing.

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

I lie on the bosom of the infinite world. At this moment I am its soul, for I feel all its powers and its infinite life as my own.

The Great Spirit is the innermost Self of all creatures.

Nothing can be separated from everything else.

Same deal here. It's not "you" and "the universe." It's "universeyou.

you look out at the clear blue sky and for an instant you see that you are everything. You want to say something, but none of the words you have will stick at all; nothing will come except for a wide, wide smile that crosses all of space at time---and the moment is utterly forgotten

There is no separation between creator, creation, and created thing. You simply admit that you are an extension of the creation, a part of it, accepted by it. Eventually the effort becomes how to live within the intention of the creator. To find this out and follow this Way, is to live.

In zazen we practice the oneness of reality.